Richard Nixon: “It is and it will become an even more major issue as time goes by.”

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…